John Daniel Olivas

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
John Olivas
John Olivas
Country: United States
Organization: NASA
selected on June 4, 1998
( 17th NASA Group )
Calls: 2 space flights
Start of the
first space flight: 		June 8, 2007
Landing of the
last space flight: 		September 12, 2009
Time in space: 27d 17h 05min
EVA inserts: 5
EVA total duration: 34h 28m
retired on May 25, 2010
Space flights

John Daniel "Danny" Olivas (born May 25, 1966 in Los Angeles , California , USA ) is a former American astronaut .

Life

Olivas was in the district of North Hollywood was born in Los Angeles, he grew up but in El Paso ( Texas ). There he attended Burges High School until 1984 and began to study at the University of Texas . He received his bachelor's degree in mechanical engineering in 1989.

Immediately after graduating from university, Olivas found a job at the Texas branch of the chemical company Dow Chemical . For five years he worked as a materials tester and monitored the loads on the company's own systems. At the same time he continued his mechanical engineering studies and obtained his master's degree from the University of Houston in 1993 .

In 1994 Olivas went to Kelly Air Force Base near San Antonio and took care of the engines of the C-5 "Galaxy" transport aircraft . During the summer of the following year, he worked at the Johnson Space Center (JSC) testing new materials for NASA's spacesuits.

After Olivas received his PhD from Rice University in the spring of 1996 , he moved to California . He initially worked for an aerospace industry supplier before taking up a position at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). He worked as a research engineer in quality assurance, where he developed processes to non-destructively examine components that are intended for use in space. He was then promoted to head of manufacturing assurance, researching the sensitivity of electronic circuits.

Astronaut activity

Together with 24 colleagues, Olivas was selected in the summer of 1998 with NASA's 17th astronaut group. After his basic training, he was assigned to the robotics department of the astronauts office, where he was responsible for the " Canada hand " of the ISS . It was followed by three years in which he at the Department of spacewalks worked on techniques to repair the Space Shuttle in orbit.

STS-117 was Olivas' maiden flight to the International Space Station in June 2007. The main payload of the Atlantis was the S3 / S4 element . Together with James Reilly , he carried out two of the four space missions. The S3 / S4 component was mounted on the station, the solar panels extended and the second wing of the P6 solar module retracted.

Olivas took off for his second space flight on August 29, 2009. The space shuttle Discovery took him to the International Space Station as part of the STS-128 mission , where he was involved in all three space exits. The landing took place on September 12, 2009.

According to NASA

Olivas left NASA on May 25, 2010. In August 2013, he returned to the University of Texas in El Paso. There he became head of the Center for the Advancement of Space Safety and Mission Assurance Research (CASSMAR), which conducts research aimed at making manned space travel safer.

Private

Danny Olivas is married and has five children.

See also

Web links

Commons : John Daniel Olivas  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Danny Olivas, UTEP Unite to Advance Space Research. University of Texas, August 15, 2013, accessed August 22, 2013 .
personal data
SURNAME Olivas, John Daniel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Olivas, Danny
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American astronaut
DATE OF BIRTH May 25, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Los Angeles , California